With this updated bestseller, educators discover how to use collaboration to shape school culture and help their students learn. Visionary Hank Rubin provides a broad overview of collaboration in education and lays the foundation for

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With this updated bestseller, educators discover how to use collaboration to shape school culture and help their students learn. Visionary Hank Rubin provides a broad overview of collaboration in education and lays the foundation for working with colleagues, establishing strong partnerships, and cooperating with students to achieve goals. Filled with practical examples and the latest research, this resource examines 14 phases of collaboration and helps educators:

Understand the skills and characteristics that foster successful collaboration

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Table of Contents

Foreword to the Second EditionPreface and Overview Who Is This Book For? Building Relationships for Children A Note to Grantmakers A Note on Writing a Book A Quick Guide for the Reader Dear Reader …AcknowledgmentsAbout the Author1. An Invitation to Collaborative Leadership Cutting Stone Working Definitions2. Collaborative Leadership: A Continuing Mandate In Our DNA The Importance of Powerlessness The Position of Mission The Monitor’s Dim Glow3. Collaborative Leadership: If We Do It Right Leveraging Leadership Beyond Toolboxes Collaboration and Competition Collaboration and Creativity Pushing String: Authenticity and Intentionality So, Who Is a Collaborative Leader?4. The Nature of Collaboration Individual and Representational Participation Types and Tones of Collaboration Veracity and Tenacity A Final Note5. Most of Us Begin by Missing the Point: Why Education Democracy’s Midwife Supporting Education’s Civic Purpose More Than Memory Banks Content and Collaboration Answering the Call for Public Collaborations6. The 4th R Looking at Teachers as Collaborative Leaders Teaching Collaboration for Teaching’s Public Purpose The Easy Case for Principals and Superintendents as Collaborative Leaders A Final Thought Schools and Colleges of Education7. Constructing Models The How It’s All in Your Head! Constellations-of-Relationships: Thinking Through Relationships Collaboration’s Life Cycle Overview Phase 1: Why Collaborate? Phase 2: Outcomes? Decision Makers? Phase 3: Research: Knowledge, Policy, Politics Phase 4: Stakeholders? Phase 5: Frame and Recruit Phase 6: Leaders, Structure, Roles, and Rules Phase 7: Develop an Action Plan Phase 8: Begin With Successes Phase 9: Build Bonds Between Partners Phase 10: Celebrate Successes Phase 11: Assess, Adjust, and Reinforce Bonds Phase 12: Goal-Centered Accountability Phase 13: Scaffold the Change Phase 14: Revisit and Renew Mission Final Note8. The Dimensions of Collaborative Leadership Of Sums and Parts The Value of Clusters The Personal Dimensions of Collaborative Leadership The Management Dimensions of Collaborative Leadership9. Nine Nuggets A Practitioner’s Postscript Nine Principles of Effective Collaborative LeadershipResource A: Planning and Assessment: An Intentional Q&AResource B: A New Conceptual Framework: A Tool for Teachers, Curriculum Developers, and ResearchersResource C: “Schools of Collaborative Excellence”: A Model for School-Based LeadersReferencesIndex